Enough of the "memory lane" bullshit. Let's get back to my favorite topics -- doom and gloom. As some of you may have heard, Thailand has taken a severe pounding. Not only has the recent flooding caused devastating property damage, it's taken a toll on the rice crop. In and of itself, this wouldn't mean much -- except that it's not an isolated incident. Rice crops have also failed in Indonesia and China. Not only will this increase the price of rice, but of other grains as well. Corn is already skyrocketing , and the "ripple effect" promises to be particularly unpleasant. Beyond crop failures, we mustn't forget the ongoing effects of the Gulf oil spill and the Fukushima disaster. Expect (contaminated) seafood to go through the roof, as well.
As you can conclude from the climate map here, things aren't much better in this country. As you can see here, Texas is in a world of shit, and Georgia isn't far behind. Note that the latter state's three primary water sources, Lakes Allatoona, Lanier, and Hartwell, are approximately ten feet below normal. Moving further west, you'll notice that Lubbock, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona have experienced massive dust storms this year. The photos of the Phoenix storm don't quite do it justice, but there's plenty of amateur video footage on Youtube. Am I the only one who's eerily reminded of the Dust Bowl days? You may quite rightly point out that Dust Bowl days were much worse -- but we didn’t have to worry about feeding 300,000,000 people in 1934.
If there's any good news, it's that someone has the right idea -- even if it's too little, too late. But why the hell do we have to build a desalinization plant in Mexico? Is the US running out of coastline?
Although food and water are our most pressing concerns (a human being can survive only three days without water, nearly a month without food, but he can go for years without money -- and I know whereof I speak), the economy isn't doing very well either. There's a shock, right? Never mind that those of us with functioning brains saw the shitstorm coming when real estate took a nose-dive and dollar began sagging in '06-'07.
By '08, the talk radio propagandists were assuring us that the problem wasn't with the national economy, but rather with our "personal economies." But what, pray tell, becomes of the national economy when all of its citizens' "personal economies" swirl down the pot? Just curious…
OK, I'm a doomsayer and a crank, so take my opinions cum grano salis. And tell our foreign friends that I'm full of shit, while you're at it. The country's fine. Recovery is nigh, and as soon as we elect the right president, everything will work itself out.
And speaking of our foreign, friends, the "New World Order" is steaming right along in Europe, wherein the EU has decided to cut food aid to its "useless eaters." Isn't that cute? Ram sixty years of socialism down their throats, render them utterly incapable of caring for themselves -- and then pull the rug out from under 'em.
Am I the only one who's noticed the deafening silence from America's most rabid Europhile, Michael Moore?
Moving back to our side of the pond, we find that American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends doping children as young as four into oblivion. And people thought I was an asshole for selling the occasional bag of weed to my fellow teenagers…
News flash: The global elite are a bunch of fuckin' degenerates. The more I read about the scumbags, the less embarrassed I am over my own youthful indiscretions.
News flash II: The mainstream media have blacked out Ron Paul yet again, just as in '08.
I've saved the best for last. As you may have heard, Uncle Sugar has sent 100 Special Forces to Uganda. Just a small force of "advisors," naturally. Hmm. Sounds oddly familiar, doesn't it? Let's see, a couple of years before I was born, Kennedy and Johnson sent a small force of advisors to picturesque little country in Southeast Asia. By 1965, we were out of the advice business, and had 50,000 troops in the country.
Now I'm not expecting or predicting another Vietnam. We're fighting two of those already. I do, however, think there's much more to this than meets the eye. Unless you've been asleep for the past few years, you've noticed that China has taken quite an interest in Africa. More on the subject here, here, and here. We, on the other hand, have been lagging behind in that respect. So while the US has been investing in the PRC, they've been investing in Africa. The "Dark Continent," when last I checked, was quite a resource-rich place. Continued access to said resources may very well necessitate a military presence, as it did during the 19th century. It may also necessitate "proxy wars" and other skullduggery. Watch this one closely.
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